Vocabulary Resources

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Vocabulary ESU 8 wiki - Becky Brandl's Vocabulary (and more) wiki contains a wealth of resources and links to great information. You definitely want to check this out!


ESU 6 Vocabulary Wiki

http://esu6vocabulary.wikispaces.com/home

ESU 6 Reading News Vocabulary Wiki

http://esu6-readingnews.wikispaces.com/Vocabulary

ESU 4 Vocabulary Strategies Wiki

http://esu4vocabularystrategies.wikispaces.com/home


ESU 3 Vocabulary Wiki

http://esu3vocab.wikispaces.com/home

ESU 3 Technology Tools and Vocabulary Instruction

http://esu3vocab.wikispaces.com/Tech+%26+Vocab

Florida Center for Reading Research Select Vocabulary, K-5 Grade Level, and Category

http://www.fcrr.org/FAIR_Search_Tool/FAIR_Search_Tool.aspx

Freddy Hiebert's Text Project
http://www.textproject.org/

University of Texas at Austin Searchlight

Select a grade, a topic and a category to locate K-5 Vocabulary Classroom Applications, Example Lessons, Videos, and Simulations.

http://www.texasreadsource.org/PDSRIWebApp/jsp/login.jsp

Building Academic Vocabulary Tutorial K-12: Dr. Robert Marzano’s Six-Step Process

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/ppt-vocab.html (games)

Nebraska Standards Instructional Tool (Glossary)

http://www.education.ne.gov/AcademicStandards/SIT/

Visual Thesaurus

An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

http://nnnc.visualthesaurus.com/

Thesaurus

http://thesaurus.com/

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Word Hippo

A site that will help you find the meaning of words, pronunciation, translation into different languages, find plural forms, use sentences with that word, see words that rhyme, and more!

http://www.wordhippo.com/

Knoword

A fun and challenging game that tests your ability to match definitions to words. You're presented with the first letter of a word, its part of speech, and the definition. You then have to fill in the correct spelling of the word. If you enter the correct word, you earn points. If you don't get it right, you lose points.
http://www.knoword.org/

Word Generation

A free research-based vocabulary program for middle school students designed to teach words through language arts, math, science, and social studies classes. It requires only 15 minutes a week from each content area teacher.

http://www.wordgeneration.org/proven.html

Math Words

A great site for any teacher or student who wants a reference for Math words. It is organized alphabetically and by subject area with the option to just search the site. The site doesn't just include terms, but also formulas. The explanations are readable for average math students and have tons of examples and illustrations.
http://www.mathwords.com/

Wordnik

This site connects words with meanings, images, synonyms, rhyming words, and word visualizations/word maps. This site also features pronunciation that is read out loud in more than one way because many words have more than one pronunciation! Wordnik has sound effects for most words. For example, the word 'harbor' - the first sound effect listed is seagulls and ocean waves and the second is just the sound of waves.
http://www.wordnik.com/

Wordle Generate a "word cloud" from text you enter

www.wordle.net